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Celebrated Namibian NASA scientist Dr Japie van Zyl has died. He was 63.Van Zyl died from a heart attack at his home in California in the US on Monday. Stellenbosch University (SU) said in a statement the institution was deeply saddened by the death of Van Zyl, one of the world's leading space scientists."Van Zyl…

Salim Abdool Karim, is the government's main scientific advisor for Covid-19. She also sits on the board of experts tackling the pandemic there.The award was due to be presented in Paris next week, but the ceremony was cancelled because of the coronavirus.

May 27, 2020 | 9:12am | Updated May 27, 2020 | 9:34am Nikolai Petrovsky Flinders University The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. AFP via Getty Images Up Next You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from... The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is “almost perfectly human adapted” — lending credence to…

A leading scientist has called for lockdown rules to be loosened more quickly, saying the coronavirus pandemic has already infected half of Britain’s population and is “on its way out”.Prominent Oxford epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta told unherd.com that the UK had based its handling of the crisis on the worst-case scenario and called for a…

A top U.S. scientist behind groundbreaking research in cancer and HIV/AIDS is warning that a vaccine for the coronavirus may never be found, as the number of global COVID-19 infections surged past 5 million on Thursday.William Haseltine, who has also worked on human genome projects, said that while a COVID-19 vaccine could be developed, “I…